Lantern.



F. W. DRESSEL.

LANTERN.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 13, 1909.

Patented Aug. 5, 1913.

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LANTERN.

ABPLIOATION FILED D110. 13, 1909.

Patented Aug. 5, 1913.

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FREDERICK W. DRESSEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE DRESSEL RAILWAY LAMP WORKS, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LANTERN.

Application filed December 13, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnnonnron W. DRES- SEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lanterns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in lanterns, and the same has for its object more particularly, the provision of a simple, inexpensive and durable hand lantern in which access may readily be had to the lamp without necessitating the removal of the globe.

Further, said invention has for its object the provision of a hand lantern in which the oil pot is so constructed and arranged that the same may be removed without opening the upper part of the lantern and raising the globe therein.

Further, said invention has for its object the provision of a lantern wherein the collar which serves to maintain the guards properly spaced adjacent to their lower ends also serves to support the means for holding an oil pot.

Further, said invention has for its objec the provision of a lantern having an oil pot removably supported therein, with its wick shaft extending there-through, in order to permit of the adjustment of the wick without necessitating the opening of the lantern.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a side view showing one form of hand lantern constructed according to and embodying my invention; Fi 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In said drawings designates a lantern, comprising a frame 11, composed of a series Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au 5,1913.

Serial No. 532,820.

of flat metal guards 12, 12 secured at their upper ends to an angular ring 13, and at their lower ends to a wire ring 14.

15 15 denote wire rings secured to the guards 12 12 intermediate the top and bottom rings 13 14.

16 denotes a cap or top which is hinged. at one side to the top ring 13, and provided at its opposite side with a spring locking detent 17.

18 denotes a spacing collar which is arranged upon the frame 11 intermediate the bottom ring 14 and the intermediate ring 15, and provided with a series of projections 19 19 extending between the guards 12 12, and secured upon a ring 20 whereby the guards 12, 12 are maintained properly spaced apart. The upper edge of said collar 18 is turned inward and downward, and then inward again to form a horizontal flange 21 which serves as a shoulder or support for the lower end of a globe 22. The upper end of said globe being engaged by a downwardly extending flange arranged upon the underside of said cap or top 16 which serves to secure said globe centrally in position within the frame 11.

23 denotes a cylindrical oil pot holder or support open at its top and provided along its upper edge with an inwardly extending rim or head 24. At opposite sides of said holder or support 23 are arranged horizontal slots 25 25? having vertical entrance portions extending downwardly from the upper edge of said holder or support. The upoer portion of said receptacle is of such diameter as to fit readily into the collar 18, while its lower end is reduced in diameter to receive the lower portion of an oil pot 20. Said oil pot corresponds in diameter sub stantially with the interior of the reduced portion of said holder or support which is provided upon its inner surface with a series of inwardly extending vertical ribs. Said ribs are adapted to contact with the outer side of the oil pot in order that only a limited area of said oil pot'shall be in engagement with the inner surface of said holder or support. This construction at the same time provides a series of channels which serve to conduct any oil, which may gather upon the outer side of the oil pot, to the bottom of the holder 23 and below the oil pot therein. The holder or support 23 is provided in its side just above its reduced portion with a circular row of air vents or apertures 27 27 which communicate with the space within the holder or support 23 surroundin the upper part of the oil pot 26.

27 denotes a short inwardly projecting stud arranged upon the inner side of the collar 18, and in the opposite side of said collar is provided a narrow horizontal slot 28, having one end terminating in a circular opening 29 of such size as to permit of the passage of the wheel 30 fixed 0n the outer end of the wick-raising shaft 31 therethrough.

32 denotes a spring locking detent having one end secured upon the outer side of the collar 18 adjacent to the end of the horizon tal slot 28, and its free end bent downward and upward to form a finger portion 33, and

a nose 34t, extending normally across the slot 28 at or adjacent to the point where the same merges with the large circular opening 29.

In supporting the holder 23 and oil pot 26 in position, the stud 27, arranged at one side of the collar, engages with the slot 25 in the holder 23, and the Wick-raising shaft 31, which serves as a stud, engages with the slot 25 in the holder 23, and also the registering slot 28 in the collar 13. After the holder and oil pot therein are rotated sufficient to bring the stud 27 and wick shaft 31 into contact with the closed ends of the slot 25 and 25 respectively, the nose 34 of the spring detent 32 will assume the position shown at Fig. 1, and hold theseveral parts locked in position within the frame 11.

To remove the oil pot, it merely becomes necessary to give the holder 23 a partial turn in order to release the wick-raising.

shaft 31 of its engagement with the detent 32. As soon as this occurs the stud 27'" on the collar 18 will be in position opposite the entrance end of the slot 25 in the holder 23, and the same may then be lowered.

Thereupon the end of the wick shaft 31 with its operating wheel 32 may be withdrawn inwardly through the circular opening 29 by opening the top 16 and raising the globe 22, or by removing the holder 23 as herein described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patout is l. A lantern comprising a frame, a globe support on said frame, a globe arranged in termediate the top of said frame and said globe support, an oil pot, a holder for said oil pot separate therefrom, and a locking device for simultaneously securing said oil pot and holder together and to said support, substantially as specified.

2. A lantern comprising a frame, an oil pot holder, an oil pot, and a single means for simultaneously securing said oil pot holder and oil pot together and to said frame, substantially as specified.

3. A lantern comprising a frame, a top therefor, a globe, an oil pot, a holder for said oil pot, and means arranged upon said frame adapted to simultaneously engage said oil pot and said holder, whereby to maintain said holder in position within said frame, substantially as specified.

4t. Alantern comprising a frame, a top therefor, a globe, an oil pot, a holder for said oil pot separate therefrom, a collar secured within said frame adapted to receive and support, at its upper end, said globe, and at its lower end to engage said oil pot and holder, and a securing device for simultaneously securing said oil pot and holdertogcther and said holder to said collar, substantialiy as specified.

5. A lantern comprising a frame, a toptherefor, a globe, an oil pot,'a holder for said oil pot separate therefrom, a collar secured within said frame and adapted to receive and support, at its upper end, said globe, and at its lower end to receive said oil pot, and means serving to lock said oil pot and holder together and simultaneously secure the same jointly in position within said collar, substantially as specified.

(5. A lantern comprising a frame, a top therefor, a globe, an oil pot, a holder for said oil pot, a collar secured within said fwune adapted to receive at its lower end said oil po-t holder, and means arranged partly upon said oil pot and holder, and partly upon said collar for simultaneously locking said oil pot and holder together and securing the same jointly inposition within. said collar, substantially as specified.

7. A lantern comprising a frame, a top therefor, a globe, an oil pot, a holder having a reduced end adapted to receive said oil pot, slots in said holder, a collar secured to said frame, an inwardly projecting 1116111 her on said collar adapted to engage one of the slots in said holder, an opening in the opposite side of said collar adaptedto receive the wicloraising shaft of said oil pot,

and means adapted to engage said wick shaft for securing said oil pot and holder in position within said lantern frame, substantially as specified.

8. A lantern comprising a frame, a top therefor, a globe an oil pot, a holder having a reduced end, adapted to receive said oil pot, recesses at its upper edge, and a series of apertures in its side adjacent to its reduced end, a collar secured within said frame adapted to support said globe, and provided upon one side with a slot having an enlarged end, an inwardly projecting stud arranged on said collar opposite to said slot adapted to engage one of the recesses in said holder, and the other of said recesses and the slot in said collar registering therewith, adapted to receive the wickraising shaft on said oil pot, and locking means on said collar adapted to engage said wick-raising shaft for securing said holder and oil pot in position within said lantern frame, substantially as specified.

9. A lantern comprising a frame, a top therefor, a globe, an oil pot, a holder having a reduced end, adapted to receive said oil pot, recesses at its upper edge, and a series of apertures in its side adjacent to its reduced end, a collar secured within said frame adapted to support said globe, and provided upon one side with a slot having an enlarged end, and inwardly projecting stud arranged on said collar opposite to said slot adapted to engage one of the recesses in said holder, and the other of said recesses, and the slot in said collar registering therewith adapted to receive the wick-raising shaft on said oil pot, and a spring detent on said collar adapted to engage said wickraising shaft for securing said holder and oil pot in position within said lantern frame, substantially as specified.

10. A lantern comprising a frame, a top therefor, a globe, an oil pot, a holder for said oil pot, a spacing collar secured to said frame, an inwardly extending flange arranged in said spacing collar adapted to support said globe, and means for locking said oil pot and holder together and to said spacing collar, substantially as specified.

11. A lantern comprising a frame, a hinged top therefor, a globe, an oil pot, a holder for said oil pot, a spacing collar secured along its lower edge to said frame, an inwardly extending flange arranged adja cent to the upper edge of said spacing collar adapted to support said globe, and means for locking said oil pot and holder together,

and securing said holder against the inwardly-extending flange on said spacing collar, substantially as specified.

12. In a hand lantern, the combination of a series of guards, with a spacing collar comprising an annular member, an inwardly projecting globe-supporting flange, and an outwardly-projecting flange member on said annular member having recesses therein to receive said guards, and a securing member on'said flange extending through said guards, substantially as specified.

13. A lantern comprising a frame, a lamp, a wick-raising shaft thereon, a lamp holder separate from said lamp adapted to receive said lamp, and means provided upon said frame and said lamp holder cooperating with said wick-raising shaft for simultaneously securing said lamp and said holder together and to said frame, substantially as specified.

14. In a hand lantern, the combination of a series of fiat guards having apertures therein, with a spacing collar comprising an annular member, an inwardly projecting globe-supporting flange thereon, an outwardly-projecting tubular flange having a series of vertical recesses therein adapted to receive the apertured portions of said flat guards, and a ring secured within said tubular flange, and passing through the apertures in said fiat guards, substantially as specified.

15. In a hand lantern, the combination of a series of flat guards having inwardly extending portions provided with apertures, with a spacing collar comprising an annular member, a globe-supporting flange extending inwardly from the upper edge thereof, a tubular flange extending outwardly from the lower edge of said annular member having a series of equally-spaced vertical recesses therein, adapted to receive the inwardly-extending apertured portions of said guards, and a ring clamped within said tubular flange and passing through the apertures in the portions of said guards extending into the recesses in said tubular flange, substantially as specified.

Signed at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, this thirteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and nine.

FREDERICK W. DRESSEL.

Witnesses CONRAD A. DIETERIOH, Lnsrnn C. TAYLOR.

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